DNS change from Godaddy to Netlify - dns

Problem:
I have svilab.com and www.svilab.com pointing to the managed DNS servers from Netlify.
I would like crm.netlify.com to point to a Godaddy IP address 160.153.33.96
Here is what I have done so far:
Migrated my DNS from Godaddy to Netlify by changing the nameservers to
dns1.p06.nsone.net
dns2.p06.nsone.net
dns3.p06.nsone.net
dns4.p06.nsone.net
Created an A record that goes to crm.svilab.com -> 160.153.33.96 which is a godaddy server.
What I am expecting is to see:
A login page for the suitecrm I setup.
What I am actually seeing is:
Future home of something quite cool. I have verified that the home.html for this default page does not exist in the public_html on godaddy.

I setup the A record correctly. See my dropbox link
The problem was on netlify's side. From their email...
You made the record correctly. There is a known bug (cross-linked to this conversation for tracking) were sometimes, very rarely but sometimes, the DNS record gets created in our UI but not in the actual DNS server.
So, our UI says there is a record, when in reality there isn't one.
To clarify, you did everything correctly and it was a bug on our end. I deleted and recreated that A record in the Netlify UI and it worked the second time around.

You can't point crm.netlify.com to choice of your server, as this is completely owned by netlify.
For pointing crm.{yourdomain.example} you need to create A record in your domains zone file pointing it to specific IP you want.

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I have setup web-hosting for the domain name, 'www.domainName.com' (forExample) and had it working fine, but when I removed the existing nameservers and placed in my web-hosting nameServers, it broke the 3rd party email hosting, which unbeknown to me was actively being used. To rectify this, my nameServers were removed, and the mail-hosting namerServers were added back:
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I am completely confused the last few days with this and I still haven't found an outcome that's worked.
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I also Have one domain & hosting with godaddy for domain- shanafagan.com which is my own site for web/graphic design service.
I created a subdomain= dublinplasterer.shanafagan.com and uploaded the site files.
Basically I want for example when someone types in dublinplasterer.ie in the address bar if goes to dublinplasterer.shanafagan.com but doesn't show dublinplasterer.shanafagan.com url, stays as dublinplasterer.ie
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Search for ProxyPass.
The way you should do this is add a second domain on your web hosting (cpanel for example) and point the other domain to this web server.
If you are struggling I recommend using a solution like cPanel that is widely used and simplifies much of the process. It is common enough you can google most issues.
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Though this was a long last headache, I solved the problem by removing domain's DNS entry alongside with all alias domains attached to it directly in DNS Server console, restarting server and then rebuilding DNS Zone via Helm Control Panel. I'm not sure if this was the best practice but it seems there was a mix of domain's DNS, alias domains' DNS, Hosting software, Caching problems.
Edit 2:
Actually this error was not about the DNS stuff, it is a failure of Helm Control Panel adding/removing alias domains. To share the experience, I Add a answer to this question.
This was not a DNS error.
I found the answer when examining IIS where i noticed the website was stopped.
Forcing the website to start, this error message poped up:
IIS was unable to start the site, another site may already be using the port you configured for this site.
Further investigation revealed that one same domain alias has previously added to another domain/host.
Removing this alias from IIS > Website Properties > Website > Advanced > Advanced Website Identification, fixed the problem.
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